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STAT+: Hair loss is one of the most hated chemotherapy side effects. A new biotech hopes to prevent it

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The chemotherapy Christine Ko was prescribed for her breast cancer is pretty much a guarantee for losing your hair. The company is currently developing an antibody that might reliably protect the head’s hair follicles from chemotherapy damage — if it works. But, to her, it wasn’t much of an option.

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STAT+: Merck, Daiichi Sankyo to partner on targeted chemotherapy drugs in deal worth up to $22 billion

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MADRID — Merck is paying billions of dollars to partner with Daiichi Sankyo on a series of cancer drugs, underscoring the excitement around targeted chemotherapy treatments.     The deal includes a $4 billion upfront payment and an additional $1.5 billion over the next two years.

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AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso plus chemotherapy wins EU approval for NSCLC

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Approval is based on positive data from the Phase III FLAURA2 trial where Tagrisso plus chemotherapy showed PFS of 24.4

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New chemotherapy treatment could benefit multiple cancer types

European Pharmaceutical Review

A clinical trial in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) has demonstrated the first successful combination of chemotherapy with a drug targeting cancer’s metabolism developed for the asbestos-induced disease in two decades. The anti-cancer treatment combines the new drug ADI-PEG20 and traditional chemotherapy.

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FDA approves J&J’s Rybrevant with chemotherapy for NSCLC treatment

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The drug has been approved in combination with chemotherapy (carboplatin-pemetrexed) for the first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 20 […] The post FDA approves J&J’s Rybrevant with chemotherapy for NSCLC treatment appeared (..)

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Non-chemotherapy lymphoma treatment may provide durable remission

European Pharmaceutical Review

A non-chemotherapy multi-drug therapy enabled complete remission in 38 percent of evaluable patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma, a Phase Ib/II clinical trial shows. The post Non-chemotherapy lymphoma treatment may provide durable remission appeared first on European Pharmaceutical Review.

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STAT+: FDA will allow troubled chemotherapy maker to resume distribution of cancer drugs in short supply

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After finding a “cascade of failures” at a manufacturing plant run by a key chemotherapy supplier, the Food and Drug Administration will not allow the company to resume distribution in the U.S. beyond some   cancer medicines that are in short supply.